Sentences with phrase «known as the mechanism»

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«Like Vietnam, one of the crucial elements we secured was what is known as a work plan, a mechanism to deal with outstanding issues, which for Canada includes ensuring the deal provides better access and terms for autos and does not affect our unique cultural sensitivities,» Joseph Pickerill, spokesman for Canadian Trade Minister Francois - Philippe Champagne, said in a statement.

Their infinite shelf space allows them to stock the Harry Potter book or The Dark Knight DVD as well as lesser known title, and their search and review mechanisms help the community vote up an occasional obscure title to become a hit.

They have also given rise to a view of boards of directors as an organizational mechanism for controlling what's known as «agency costs» — the costs to shareholders associated with delegating authority to managers.

Canada wants to keep its ability to appeal such trade decisions to a panel of judges from Nafta countries through what is known as Chapter 19, a reference to the Nafta chapter that created the mechanism.

The mechanisms that should have prevented this outcome have broken down, and as a result there's no longer much reason to think Bitcoin can actually be better than the existing financial system.

As faithful readers of this blog will know, I make only very sporadic contributions to this blog but a substantial fraction of those contributions have made reference to modern monetary theory (MMT), the view (crudely put) that, based on a detailed understanding of the institutional mechanisms behind monetary operations, calls into question our obsession with -LSB-...]

«There is therefore no government mechanism to guarantee the value of currency instruments known as virtual currencies,» the bank said.

The process hasn't been slow and neither has it been steady, but digital crowd sales (commonly known as token sales or ICOs) continue to emerge as a form of public fundraising mechanism.

So, since VIX - suppression has been a well - known but under - advertised mechanism used by the Criminal Interventionalists to juice stock prices, it appeared to me as the utmost «Fade the Fed,» contrarian, set - up trade EVER.

[4] As a result, changes in the monetary base are no longer «high powered» — the money multiplier has collapsed and the monetary transmission mechanism that prevailed prior to 2008 is broken.

The concept known as Proof of Work (PoW) serves as a consensus building mechanism to reward legitimate participants and prevent malicious hackers from taking over the network.18 However, most of the calculations involve trying out nonce (random numbers that can only be used once) to satisfy a desired output format.

Here's another way of thinking about this, and from my perspective as someone who likes to know how things happen (i.e. looks for mechanisms).

And just as the primordial nature knows no negative prehensions, so too with the Deleuzean notion of the «virtual» as a kind of cosmic unconscious: «The phenomena of the unconscious can not be understood in the overly simple form of opposition and conflict... conflicts are the result of more subtle differential mechanisms....

The mechanisms of this international capitalist recession, the latest of which, to date, some would like to see as the first crisis of world capitalism, are well known: contraction in production and trade; deflationary trends; massive growth in the volume of loans accumulated by international banks on countries or on the major industrial and banking groups, loans which become transformed into irrecoverable debts; brutal capital withdrawals from countries by the major financial operators, which live from the revenue from parasitical investments in bonds, shares and other derivatives.

The change that has come about in theologies that partake of creative and emergent evolution can be described in this way: since mechanism is no longer the base of their evolutionary thinking, idealism is no longer essential as a strategy of thought in resolving the tension between science and faith.

A great number of these mechanisms have been preserved evolutionarily in humans, just as they are for every other behavioral trait we know (including heterosexuality).

Understandably, different churches practise it differently via salary structure, or some other mechanisms such as periodic love gifts, etc. (In the early church, salary structure as we know it today probably wasn't invented, just like computer, modern musical instruments and life insurance policy.)

As every schoolchild who has been instructed in the rudiments of science now knows, or should know, modern genetics has provided a completely different account of the mechanism of inheritance, making untenable the blood theory upon which traditional race lore rested.

AsI came to separate who I was as spirit and soul from my ego or flesh and the latters coping mechanisms the inimacy with a few others became a place i not only went to for encouragement, transparency and to heal that inner child but also a place for clarity, to be remided who I really am, where those who've come to know me see me, help divide through the bone and marrow per se.

Man can not stand to not know all the answers to burning questions like «why are we here» so he invented a God as a coping mechanism.

General education is concerned with what a person needs to know and to become as a human being, not merely as a cog in the corporate mechanism.

The development in question is not simply the result of natural mechanisms, since as everybody knows, we are all capable of making free and responsible choices.

A god or gods may have been responsible for the expansion of the known universe and the origin and diversification of life on this planet; however, as these are supernatural mechanisms, there is no way to test the propositions.

-- > NO, there are insurmountable problems with neo-darwinism as the mechanism for the current complexity we see.

l) «What, in short, is the «mechanism» by which God makes himself known to man, by which the Almighty touches the mightless, by which the Limitless penetrates the narrow confines of the limited, by which Time enters moment, by which the Holy invades the unholy, and the Word speaks in words» Even when this happens, as ultimately it did, as with finality it always does, in the person of Jesus Christ, all the forms and ingenuity of human language are inadequate to give it mechanical explanation.

Since we don't know if the universe might have some mechanism of self - starting that is beyond our current understanding of the universe's function, it's stupid to classify it, as you do, as «thoughtful» and «supernatural.»

However, the antimicrobial properties of honey have not been fully exploited by modern medicine as its mechanisms of action are not yet known.

In addition, Red Star Nutritional Yeast contains other beneficial components, such as beta - 1,3 glucan and mannan, complex carbohydrates known to improve the immune response and help maintain cholesterol levels that are already within a healthy range; trehalose, a disaccharide that helps maintain the health of brain cells; and glutathione, an antioxidant that plays an important role in cellular defense mechanisms.

Or, if you go for a chair that locks onto a table (knows usually as «hook - on» or «lock - on» high chairs) you need to double check that the mechanism that locks it in place is secure.

These incentives and policy instruments could be financial, but they could also be lighter - touch regulatory and market mechanisms that help SMEs (unlike mechanisms such as auctions that are barriers to small players who do not have corporate back - up and who need to know the value of their product in advance if they are to raise funds).

Do you want to know what the «only white people can be racist» crowd use as a coping mechanism to explain obvious racism in other cultures (the answer would be doublethink)?

In a rough outline, the governor touted public - private partnerships (or PPPs, as they're known) as a key mechanism to pay for «the repair and development of highways, bridges and major construction projects.»

These include the «renewables obligation», which is effectively a quota mechanism imposing costs on generators who fail to generate a set proportion of their electricity from renewables and more recently, courtesy of the energy bill, a most peculiar mechanism, otherwise known as «contracts for difference».

As part of the project labor agreement, the union has agreed to an adjustment on shift premiums, a no - strike or - work stoppage clause and dispute mechanisms to prevent interruptions in the project work, NYCHA officials said.

«As a Liberal Democrat candidate in 2010, I knew the Party has the mechanisms in place to form a coalition.

The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, and the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas workers, NUPENG have endorsed the price modulation mechanism adopted by the Federal Government which pegged the pump price for premium motor spirit, popularly known as petrol at N145 per litre.

Whereas Healey had led by 112 MP votes to 83 in round one, the also - ran votes fell to Foot by 139 to 129 in an atmosphere where many MPs were eager to appease the unions and the left, thereby avoiding the new mechanism known as «mandatory reselection».

What I do know is the bill is important for creating a mechanism to deliver needed aid to truly needy hospitals [such as] New York City Health + Hospitals, other public hospitals, hospitals with high volumes of Medicaid and uninsured patients, and many rural hospitals.»

The CFA serves as the single entry point for access to economic development funding, ensuring applicants no longer have to slowly navigate multiple agencies and sources without any mechanism for coordination.

In fact, the process to get it out is known as the easy - lift mechanism.

The vaccine triggers a mechanism known as RNA interference, which is an innate defence mechanism of plants, animals and other eukaryotic organisms against pathogens.

But through a mechanism known as mean - motion resonance, the anti-aligned orbit of the ninth planet actually prevents the Kuiper Belt objects from colliding with it and keeps them aligned.

No one yet knows the mechanism through which environmental factors would alter these genes, although stress hormones such as cortisol may be playing a role.

The NAS finished reviewing the EPA assessment in April, sending back a long list of questions and advising the EPA not to finalize the document until it could show exactly how formaldehyde causes cancer, a biological mechanism known as the «mode of action.»

Superadiance — the extraction of energy from a rotating black hole — is also known as the Penrose Mechanism and is a precursor of Hawking Radiation — a quantum version of black - hole superradiance.

The method uses a shearing mechanism, somewhat like a cheese slicer, to peel off layers of graphene in a way that causes them to roll up into a scroll - like shape, technically known as an Archimedean spiral.

Publishing online this week in Cell Host & Microbe, researchers at Johns Hopkins report the discovery of a key underlying immune mechanism that explains why to how our skin becomes inflamed from conditions such as atopic dermatitis, more commonly known as eczema.

Nobody really knows how the activity in your brain reorganizes as you learn new tasks, but new research from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh reveals that the brain has various mechanisms and constraints by which it reorganizes its neural activity when learning over the course of a few hours.

Welte and his team made their discovery while studying the internal mechanisms of the egg cell of the fruit fly, known as Drosophila.

The researchers» design exploits the mechanism of a different type of medical device, known as a middle - ear implant.